THE CAMPAIGN IS BORN

FOR the first time in half a century the Republican party has had an
opportunityand has accepted itto renominate for a second term a
President who has led his party forward toward new goals. The
significant fact about President Eisenhower's nomination in 1952 was
that it marked at least temporarily the ascendancy of the liberal wing
of the Republican party. His influence has been thrown consistently on
the side of a basic reform of the principles of Republican philosophy.
He has sought, and with some success, to lead his party toward...